Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorney Dina Kaminskaya was chosen by Shcharansky and Ginzburg to represent them. She was then disbarred for her previous, vigorous defense of several other dissenters and forced into exile ten months ago. In Washington last week she argued that "the dissident movement will not be defeated in spite of all these persecutions. There will always be people who surface to fight, even when the persecutions become more cruel...
...Dylan is trying out a new style both on the road and in the studio. After seeing Neil Diamond play Las Vegas, Dylan turned his attention to making his own concerts more "entertaining," even going so far as to hire Diamond's manager. Perhaps that explains the liner photo chosen for Street Legal-a shot of Dylan in a white suit holding the microphone and casting a challenging look to the audience, with the guitar that he hid behind for so many years nowhere in sight...
Quite by chance it happens that we now have two simultaneous productions of Twelfth Night. The work was chosen by Gerald Freedman, the newly appointed artistic director of the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, as the vehicle for resuming activity after a season's hiatus. And it is the inaugural offering of the second "Broadway at Brandeis" season here at the Spingold Theatre in nearby Waltham. With such a wondrous work, however, this overlapping by no means constitutes excess--or "surfeit," to use the play's own word for one of its major themes...
...have to be Jewish to love Chaim Potok. The author of The Promise and The Chosen has won literary converts of many faiths with novels about the inner and outer conflicts of the Hasidic life. For his forthcoming history of the Jews, Wanderings (Knopf; $17.95), the famed novelist visited concentration camps and trekked across the Egyptian sands to Mount Sinai. When he is not traveling or writing, Potok often indulges in an early love for painting; numerous examples of his work adorn his home. In fact, he once wanted to be an artist, but his parents persuaded him to scrap...
...Carter has decided to appoint a woman to an institution once so male chauvinist that it took Eleanor Roosevelt to crash the men-only rule in the board's dining room. The successor is Nancy Teeters, 47, the chief economist of the House Budget Committee. She was chosen largely because she has strong liberal views that she argues forcefully; Carter sees the board, Miller excepted, as a hotbed of Hoover Republicanism...